[Nick's Writing Blog] Mills & Boon New Voices - A Great Opportunity for R...

[Nick]

Just wanted to draw your attention to the New Voices Competition being run by romantic fiction publishers Harlequin Mills & Boon.

This contest is open to unpublished novelists in the UK, US, Canada (excluding Quebec), Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. If you're an aspiring romantic novelist, the contest website is essential viewing!

To enter, you have to submit the first chapter of your novel (up to 10,000 words in length) via the New Voices Competition website by 11:59 PM GMT on Wednesday September, 22, 2010.

An editorial team will ten finalists, who will be invited to submit a second chapter. The ten authors will then face a public vote to pick four finalists, who will submit the 'pivotal moment' of their novel. Mills and Boon judges and a public vote will decide the ultimate winner.

The winner will have their book published by Mills & Boon. They will also get the services of a Mills & Boon editor for one year, an Apple iPad, and a prize hamper containing 36 M&B books. There are also three second prizes and six third, full details of which can be viewed on the contest's Terms & Conditions page.

Even if you don't want to enter the New Voices Competition this time round, it's still well worth visiting the site to read the chapters that have been submitted so far, and the comments that have been made about them by readers.

Check out also the Top Tips page, with links to articles about writing romantic fiction by established Mills & Boon writers and editors.

Happy romance writing!

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Posted By Nick to Nick's Writing Blog at 9/13/2010 03:26:00 PM